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The Charité hospital in Berlin wrote in a press release that Alexei Navalny, the Russian opponent hospitalized in Germany, is no longer in a medically induced coma and that his condition is improving. Navalny now breathes autonomously without the help of ventilators and responds to verbal stimuli. However, the hospital adds that “it is still too early to assess the possible long-term effects of his severe poisoning.”
Last week, the German government released the results of toxicological tests carried out by a special army laboratory in Navalny, according to which the Russian opponent was poisoned with a dangerous nerve agent, the novichok, developed by Russia in the 1980s. . and Ninety and has already been used in the past to poison the opponents of President Vladimir Putin. In the previous days, the Charité hospital in Berlin had said that Navalny had been poisoned, but had not yet specified the substance ingested pending further tests.
The German government had harshly attacked Russia, holding it directly responsible for the poisoning; German Chancellor Angela Merkel had said that “it is clear that Alexei Navalny was the victim of a crime” and that “the aim was to silence him.”
Navalny, the most important opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had been transferred to Germany after two days of hospitalization in Omsk, Russia, after what immediately appeared to be a case of poisoning. Before allowing Navalny to move abroad, Omsk doctors had changed their version of his condition several times, eventually going so far as to argue that the tests had ruled out that there had been poisoning and Navalny was ill from low blood sugar. .
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